Mole Music

Mole Music PDF Author:
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780805067668
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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Book Description
Feeling that something is missing in his simple life, Mole acquires a violin and learns to make beautiful, joyful music.

Mole Music

Mole Music PDF Author:
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780805067668
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 36

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Book Description
Feeling that something is missing in his simple life, Mole acquires a violin and learns to make beautiful, joyful music.

Nighttime Symphony

Nighttime Symphony PDF Author: Timbaland
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442412089
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Baby falls asleep to a thunderstorm in the city, where all of the sounds blend together into a lullaby.

Wild Symphony

Wild Symphony PDF Author: Dan Brown
Publisher: Dragonfly Books
ISBN: 0593704231
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 45

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#1 New York Times bestselling author Dan Brown makes his picture book debut with this mindful, humorous, musical, and uniquely entertaining book! The author will be donating all US royalties due to him to support music education for children worldwide, through the New Hampshire Charitable foundation. Travel through the trees and across the seas with Maestro Mouse and his musical friends! Young readers will meet a big blue whale and speedy cheetahs, tiny beetles and graceful swans. Each has a special secret to share. Along the way, you might spot the surprises Maestro Mouse has left for you- a hiding buzzy bee, jumbled letters that spell out clues, and even a coded message to solve! Children and adults can enjoy this timeless picture book as a traditional read-along, or can choose to listen to original musical compositions as they read--one for each animal--with a free interactive smartphone app, which uses augmented reality to play the appropriate song for each page when a phone's camera is held over it.

Beethoven and His Nine Symphonies

Beethoven and His Nine Symphonies PDF Author: George Grove
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Simfonie
Languages : en
Pages : 416

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Music Quickens Time

Music Quickens Time PDF Author: Daniel Barenboim
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1844674703
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 193

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In this eloquent book, Daniel Barenboim draws on his profound and uniquely influential engagement with music to argue for its central importance in our everyday lives. While we may sometimes think of personal, social and political issues as existing independently of each other, Barenboim shows how music teaches that this is impossible. Turning to his intense involvement with Palestine, he examines the transformative power of music in the world, from his own performances of Wagner in Israel and his foundation, with Edward Said, of the internationally acclaimed West-Eastern Divan Orchestra. Music Quickens Time reveals how the sheer power and eloquence of music offers us a way to explore and shed light on the way in which we live, and to illuminate and resolve some of the most intractable issues of our time.

Beethoven's Symphonies

Beethoven's Symphonies PDF Author: Martin Geck
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022645388X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 206

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In the years spanning from 1800 to 1824, Ludwig van Beethoven completed nine symphonies, now considered among the greatest masterpieces of Western music. Yet despite the fact that this time period, located in the wake of the Enlightenment and at the peak of romanticism, was one of rich intellectual exploration and social change, the influence of such threads of thought on Beethoven’s work has until now remained hidden beneath the surface of the notes. Beethoven’s Symphonies presents a fresh look at the great composer’s approach and the ideas that moved him, offering a lively account of the major themes unifying his radically diverse output. Martin Geck opens the book with an enthralling series of cultural, political, and musical motifs that run throughout the symphonies. A leading theme is Beethoven’s intense intellectual and emotional engagement with the figure of Napoleon, an engagement that survived even Beethoven’s disappointment with Napoleon’s decision to be crowned emperor in 1804. Geck also delves into the unique ways in which Beethoven approached beginnings and finales in his symphonies, as well as his innovative use of particular instruments. He then turns to the individual symphonies, tracing elements—a pitch, a chord, a musical theme—that offer a new way of thinking about each work and will make even the most devoted fans of Beethoven admire the symphonies anew. Offering refreshingly inventive readings of the work of one of history’s greatest composers, this book shapes a fascinating picture of the symphonies as a cohesive oeuvre and of Beethoven as a master symphonist.

Symphony for the City of the Dead

Symphony for the City of the Dead PDF Author: M.T. Anderson
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763691003
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 465

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Originally published: Somerville, Massachusetts: Candlewick Press, 2015.

Welcome to the Symphony

Welcome to the Symphony PDF Author: Carolyn Sloan
Publisher: Workman Publishing
ISBN: 0761176470
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35

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Using one of the most famous works in classical music—Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony—here is the perfect way to introduce a young child to the world of classical music. This charming and interactive picture book with its panel of 19 sound buttons is like a ticket to a concert hall, taking readers on a journey from the exciting first moment when the musicians begin tuning up to the end of the first movement (attention newcomers: don’t clap yet!). At each step of the way, readers learn the basics of classical music and the orchestra: What is a conductor? What is a symphony? Who was Beethoven? The different aspects of music: melody, harmony, tempo, theme. And the families of instruments—strings, woodwinds, brass, and percussion. But the best part is that every critical idea is illustrated in gorgeous sound. The sound panel allows readers to hear the different parts of the symphony and voices of the music—the famous beginning of the Fifth, what a clarinet sounds like, the difference between a violin and a viola, what a melody is, and what harmony is. Kids will want to match their voices to the A note that tunes the orchestra, dance to the rhythmic passages—and, of course, sing along to da-da-da-daah!

Beethoven, A Life

Beethoven, A Life PDF Author: Jan Caeyers
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520390210
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 656

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"With unprecedented access to the archives at the Beethoven House in Bonn, ... Beethoven conductor and scholar Jan Caeyers ... weaves together a deeply human and complex image of Beethoven--his troubled youth, his unpredictable mood swings, his desires, relationships, and conflicts with family and friends, the mysteries surrounding his affair with the 'immortal beloved, ' and the dramatic tale of his deafness. Caeyers also offers new insights into Beethoven's music and its gradual transformation from the work of a skilled craftsman into that of a consummate artist"--Publisher marketing.

The First Four Notes

The First Four Notes PDF Author: Matthew Guerrieri
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0804170193
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 386

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A TIME Magazine Top 10 Nonfiction Book of 2012 A New Yorker Best Book of the Year Los Angeles Magazine's #1 Music Book of the Year This revelatory book of music history examines what is perhaps the best known and most-popular symphony ever written—and its famous four-note opening. Reaching back before Beethoven’s time, Matthew Guerrieri uncovers premonitions of the opening notes in the rhythms of ancient Greek poetry and the music of the French Revolution. He discusses the Fifth’s impact when it premiered, tracing the artistic, philosophical, and political reverberations across Europe to China, Russia, and the United States, from Romanticism to ring tones, from propaganda to pop. This fascinating piece of musical detective work is a treat for music lovers of every stripe.